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APPLIUATION FILED FBB.19, 1906.

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' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 11, 1907.

Application led February 19, 1906. Serial No. 301,966.

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Another object of the invention is to provide a mixing spoon or implement, having a bowl and a handle with a thermometer.

The invention consists in such novel features of construction and combination of parts as shall hereinafter be more fully described and pointed out in the claims.

Figure l, represents a side view of the improved mixing implement. Fig. 2, repre- Fig. 3, rep- Bu, Fig. 2. Fig. 4, represents a longitudinal sectional view of parts of the implement taken on line ei Fig.

Similar numerals of reference designate miresponding parts throughout.

In carrying this invention into practice in its preferred form I construct a spoon having bowl 5 of suitable shape and proportions for the use of which it is intended and having the handle 6, the material at the edge pori tions of which is bent up to form overlapping lips 7---7 between which is the opening 8. Located in the bowl 5, and preferably con- 40 forming somewhat to the shape of said bowl,

is a thermometer bulb 9, furnished with mercury or other well known material adapted to expand under heat, and having a tubular stem l0 extending along the handle and partially embraced by the lips 7-7 of the iandle; this tubular sten 1G is Afurnished with graduations indicating degrees of heat. In order to protect the bulb 9 from fracture, I prefer to provide the bulb 9 or the bowl 5, with the guard l1 shaped to iit over the bulb.

The thermometer bulb 9 and its tube l0 are preferably secured to the spoon during its manufacture, the lips 7*? being bent over the tube l0, but I do not limit myself to this, or any other specific method, of securing the thermometer as I am aware that the lips 7 -7 may be omitted, the thermometer being held in place at one end by the guard ll and by clamps similar to that shown at 12, the main purpose of utilizing the bent over lips 7-7 lbeing that the handle 6 is strengthened by such conformation and that lthe tube l() is protected by the edges of the pHaving thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent.

The combination with. a spoon having a bowl and an open tubular stem extending therefrom, of a thermometer bulb located in the bowl and having a tube extending into said stem, and a guard covering said bulb, as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof .l my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK B. COMINS.

l/Vitnesses CHARLES BJ GUMMINGS, H. J. MILLER. 

